It feels like just yesterday that I was sharing literally all the thoughts I had about A Simple Favor (when, in fact, it was…last week), and now, the long-awaited sequel—Another Simple Favor—has officially hit Prime Video.
So, how does it measure up? Without further ado, please find absolutely everything that crossed my mind while watching Another Simple Favor.
- Why Another Simple Favor and not A Simpler Favor?
- Oh, hell yeah, Italian music is playing in the opening credits.
- Paul Feig stans (Feig Freaks?), we are so back.
- Thank God Andrew Rannells is back.
- Stephanie’s mommy-vlogging again!
- In Capri, this time.
- Okay, product placement for Babbel.
- Take that, Duolingo!
- Okay, Stephanie allegedly did not kill Emily’s husband.
- Oh my God, Stephanie’s sweet little boy is a rude teen now!
- How time flies.
- Maybe this is evidence that I shouldn’t have kids, but sending your kid to sleepaway camp sounds like an iconic way to get a full, luxurious month to yourself.
- I’m not sure about this hospital-scrubs-conjuring shade of teal on Andrew.
- APARNA! Thank God!
- Wait, Stephanie’s a true-crime writer now?
- Get in while the getting’s good, girl!
- Oooooh, baby, Emily is back, and she’s wearing Louboutins!
- Her hair looks as amazing as ever.
- Seriously, should I invest in Blake Brown?
- Emily’s getting married and wants Stephanie to be her maid of honor.
- I feel like the narrative that Emily and Stephanie are besties is a little fake, given that they didn’t know each other for that long before everything went down?
- But whatever!
- “Crazy sells books.” True, unfortunately!
- Do private planes come in gray?
- As a recent convert to Neck Pillow Nation, I respect Stephanie’s commitment to the lifestyle.
- Emily looks like an extremely bisexual speakeasy bartender in her little suspenders and trilby hat.
- Morning cocktail time!
- God, I missed this franchise.
- And I missed the sight of Emily’s pond-water-hued martinis (which is the correct shade for a martini to be, IMO).
- Stephanie’s hair has improved since the first movie, I must say.
- Aw, Sean never took their son to visit Emily in jail?
- Immaculate use of the word “cunty.”
- I do like Emily as a brunette.
- Who are the rest of the rent-a-bachelorettes on this flight?
- Picture hat!!!!!!!!!!!
- Italian Husband-to-Be is pretty hot, I must say, in a romance-novel kind of way.
- My mom, walking past the TV during this scene of everyone in the sunshine on the boat to Capri: “Why isn’t Anna Kendrick wearing a hat? So pale!”
- Who is this Italian Luke Danes in the flannel and baseball cap?
- LOL at Emily and Sean’s son being a tween with dyed-red hair and a drone.
- Wait, why is Sean at the wedding? Is he just transporting their son?
- Oh, I see, it was court-ordered.
- Damn, I like Stephanie’s little sightseeing dress with the built-in corset!
- I hate Sean’s printed shirt.
- What is this little crop top made of roses that Emily’s wearing? Because I think I want it.
- Emily speaks fluent Italian?
- Is Emily’s husband-to-be in the mafia?
- Okay, Stephanie has the same questions I do, which is gratifying.
- Why is this woman wearing a sheer caftan to her son’s wedding?
- JEAN SMART?
- Wait, they couldn’t get Jean Smart (for Hacks reasons, I assume), so they recast her character as Elizabeth Perkins from Weeds?
- And threw in Allison Janney as Emily’s aunt for good measure?
- Sean is drunk and living for all this drama, which I, in turn, am living for.
- Uh-oh, Sean is petitioning for full custody of Nicky.
- I’m googling “Capri wedding venue under lemon groves” and I’m finding nothing.
- I’m glad that even Blake Lively’s famously perfect mane of hair is not immune to hot-day frizz.
- Sean chugging shower wine (or some sort of shower alcohol?) is iconic.
- Someone just broke into his room and shot him up with some sort of injection that made him bleed?
- Is he bleeding from his eyes?
- Oh, damn, is he going to die?
- I would so be watching Stephanie’s vlog.
- Floating contest! Just a fun thing to do with your murderous bestie who drowned her sister!
- So one of Stephanie’s investigations (into a pedophile nicknamed the “Speedo Pedo”) went awry?
- But he killed himself before anyone could find out if he was really guilty?
- These two do have really fun friend chemistry, even when they’re discussing crime.
- Okay, yes, Sean is indeed dead.
- Wait, so did Emily do it?
- Yes, right?
- “American women and your true-crime obsession.” Get her, Italian investigator!
- Okay, Emily is wearing a picture hat that makes her previous hat look tiny.
- Is it Jacquemus?
- Who’s this hot brunette who’s been following Stephanie?
- Oh, she’s an FBI agent.
- God, to be at a little outdoor Italian café right now.
- I mean, sitting on a couch in America watching a movie isn’t so bad either, but I yearn for Capri!
- Is it the wedding day already?
- Aw, Emily looks stunning as hell in her little bridal pantsuit/dress thing.
- Okay, Nicky’s dad did just die. Shouldn’t someone be…comforting him?
- This indoor-greenhouse vibe at the reception is quite stunning.
- Italian Husband is using the wedding as an excuse to bury the hatchet between his family and the rival mafiosi, apparently.
- Was this wedding all about spousal privilege?
- I just saw a flash of sequined, feathered dress on a random party guest that I very much like.
- Did Italian Husband just…get blown up, or shot, or something?
- Yep.
- Oh, his bereaved mom is not happy with Emily.
- Wait, Stephanie’s being blamed for Italian Husband’s death and now she’s on house arrest at the hotel?
- TBH, you could do worse than being put on house arrest in a gorgeous toile-paneled room at a luxury Capri hotel.
- Oh no, Stephanie’s son got kicked out of camp!
- Thank God for gay dad friends who will pick your kids up while you’re tied up in Italy, huh?
- “You will be hearing from my lawyers as soon as I figure out how to get a lawyer.” LOL.
- Oh, Emily’s mourning veil is sending me.
- Oh shit, Emily/Stephanie kiss!
- Wait, Emily…isn’t Emily-slash-Hope?
- But Faith is dead! Emily-slash-Hope drowned her!
- OMG, whoever it is fakes a stabbing and frames Stephanie!
- Wait, so that’s Charity???????? The presumably stillborn third sister of Hope and Faith?
- Who’s been posing as Emily for most of this movie?
- Love this scene of two Italian cops absolutely cracking up and shooting the shit with each other.
- I’m getting real Amanda Knox vibes, y’all.
- Wait, Allison Janney delivered the triplets?
- And stole Charity for herself while telling everyone she was stillborn?
- The plot thickens!
- I want to be watching Italian cartoons.
- Uh-oh, Allison Janney appears to be killing the triplets’ mom!
- How many bodies are going to be racked up on this Italian jaunt, exactly?
- Saying “Gosh darn it” after killing your sister is quite charmingly Midwestern.
- Stephanie’s truth-serum personality is fun!
- Way more fun than her regular personality, if I may.
- Aw, Emily comes to save Stephanie!
- AQUA VESPA!
- Sorry, I think there’s stuff happening, but I’m locked in on the aqua Vespa.
- Oh, this shot of Charity with three blonde dolls is terrifying.
- Oh God, Blake-on-Blake incest scene?
- Did we strictly need this?
- Sleeping with your siblings………bit of a weird theme for this film across franchises, but at least it’s consistent?
- Charity has officially hijacked Stephanie’s mommy vlog.
- I repeat: the mommy vlog has been compromised.
- And she’s taken Nicky prisoner???????
- Oop, Allison Janney down.
- I mean, that cliff was just too scenic and mountainous for nobody to fall down it.
- Blake/Charity kiss at a crucial moment?
- This is…not the lesbian twist for this movie that I imagined.
- Hey, it’s Jake Tapper!
- Interviewing Stephanie! Whose book about the Capri affair is a bestseller!
- So Charity’s posing as Emily and taking the rap for her many, many murders?
- But where’s the real Emily?
- Oh, okay, at least Stephanie was right about the Speedo Pedo.
- Aw, Steph’s taking care of all the kids, including Nicky. Adorable.
- Real Emily’s in hiding?
- And she’s asking Stephanie for the “simple favor” of raising Nicky right?
- Oh, Emily in this mesh pearl dress is everything.
- Is this film really setting up a third installment?
- And I’ll watch.
